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A Swedish prosecutor said today that explosions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline were caused by "gross sabotage.
Mats Ljungqvist, the prosecutor in charge, said in a statement that "traces of explosives on several of the foreign objects" were found during the investigations on the pipelines connecting Russia and Europe under the Baltic Sea.
Swedish authorities refrained from pointing to a suspect. "Advanced analysis work continues so that we can draw more reliable conclusions about the case," Ljungqvist said.
"The preliminary investigation is very complex and extensive," the public prosecutor writes and admits: Whether a concrete suspect can be found, the further investigation procedure must show.
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Bekräftat sabotage vid Nord Stream
Nord Stream 1 was operational whereas Nord Stream 2 was set to open on the eve of Russia's invasion of Ukraine when Scholz cancelled Germany's final certification of the pipeline.
Four leaks were discovered in the pipeline in late September near the Danish island of Bornhold. Two of the blasts occurred in Sweden's exclusive economic zone and two in Denmark's.
Matthias Warnig, a former Stasi agent and Russian-based German businessman was managing director of Nord Stream AG, the Russian government majority-owned company that built and operated the pipelines. He is considered a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin from the latter's days as a KGB officer posted to Dresden, leading to criticism that the project was also political.
